Notes from MPUG, October 2013

Finally, here are my notes from the Melbourne Python User Group meeting in October.

We had over twenty people and three speakers.

Claire Sloggett, a bioinformatician at the VLSCI, gave a great introduction to Python for Genomics, starting with the “quick!” explanation of how life works, moving on to Python for genomics and then Python for managing pipelines.

The pipeline discussion focused on Ruffus, which Claire uses to manage pipelines for SAM to BAM conversion work.

Lex Hider (@lexualchocolate) talked about “how to be truly lazy” by using Salt Stack. This was a revisit of Lex’s talk at PyCon AU this year, and the video is online and well worth watching to get a good overview of Salt.